Courses

Mantra: Research Data Management Training (CC BY)

MANTRA is a free, online non-assessed course with guidelines to help you understand and reflect on how to manage the digital data you collect throughout your research. It has been crafted for the use of post-graduate students, early career researchers, and also information professionals.

Textbooks

Academic Integrity (CC BY-N C-SA)

An interactive approach to conveying the values of academic integrity, clarifying the meaning of plagiarism, and introducing the basics of citations, quoting and paraphrasing.

The Discipline of Organizing – 4th Professional Edition (CC BY-NC)

Organizing is a fundamental issue in library and information science, computer science, systems analysis, informatics, law, economics, and business. This book analyzes these different contexts and disciplines to propose a discipline of organizing that applies to all of them; the 4^th edition builds a bridge between organizing and data science. It reframes descriptive statistics as organizing techniques, expands the treatment of classification to include computational methods, and incorporates many new examples of data-driven resource selection, organization, maintenance, and personalization.

Got a minute? Instruction tune-up for time pressed librarians (CC BY-NC-SA)

No time to catch up? Try these short and informative essays that have been written on a wide variety of library instruction topics and with the busy practitioner in mind.

Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge is an open textbook and practitioner’s guide that collects theory, practice, and case studies from nearly 80 experts in scholarly communication and open education. It is a thorough guide meant to increase instruction on scholarly communication and open education issues and practices so library workers can continue to meet the changing needs of students and faculty. It is also a political statement about the future to which we aspire and a challenge to the industrial, commercial, capitalistic tendencies encroaching on higher education. Students, readers, educators, and adaptors of this resource can find and embrace these themes throughout the text and embody them in their work.

Videos

The British Library YouTube Channel (CC BY)

Videos from the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom.